Early agriculture and warfare
According to Haaretz there is growing evidence that the transition from hunting and gathering to herding and cultivation took place gradually as a result of experimentation in a time of relative plenty as the last age waned 20000 to 10000 years ago. Haaretz describes evidence of wild grain cultivation in a village near the Sea of Galilee as early as 23000 years ago, and the domestication of plants and animals in various locations at various times from 11000 years ago. Lumen Learning describes the Halfan culture developing in Nile Valley between 20000 and 17000 year ago and the subsequent Qadan culture harvesting wild-grain with sickles and processing it with grinding stones. Britannica places the dawn of agriculture between 15000 and 10000 years ago. The New York Times reports that “evidence for full-blown agriculture — crops, livestock, tools for food preparation, and villages — dates back about 11000 years”. I’d like to speculate about the personality ...